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CVE-2017-18221
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-03-07T08:29:00.263 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:12:25.487

Summary

The __munlock_pagevec function in mm/mlock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NR_MLOCK accounting corruption) via crafted use of mlockall and munlockall system calls.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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